Blowing Bubbles on Mental Health - Hacking a Kid's Toy in JavaScript
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Personal experiences and concrete hacks appear: a bedroom bubble machine triggered by an alarm, built with servo and microcontroller, gaffer tape and JavaScript code, working at first but later breaking. Gives measurable social response: a group of 30–35 women produces 21 visible reactions and one meaningful follow-up message. Recommends GP referrals, psychologists and psychiatrists for diagnosis, lists medication side effects, and teaches specific ways to ask "Are you okay" and how to offer practical support.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21Blowing Bubbles on Mental Health - Hacking a kid's Toy in JavaScript
- 4:03Symptoms
- 5:38Medicine
- 10:55Human connection
- 14:00Lead by example
- 18:42Mental health is not a sign of weakness
- 20:26Learning emotional health
- 22:14Acknowledge your emotions
- 25:28Mental health is hard
- 26:36Our strongest tools are ourselves
- 27:02We all have what it takes to change someone's life
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